US Election 2020 - Pt 2

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Mephisto_Helix

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Mainly from one side, tbh

Not wanting to pull you further away from your family and such but BS ...... both sides are doing it, equally. I know you won't ever get off your pedestal about that fact so just get back to more fake sunken boats and edited videos making people appear unfit while the other side does the same.
 

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Not wanting to pull you further away from your family and such but BS ...... both sides are doing it, equally. I know you won't ever get off your pedestal about that fact so just get back to more fake sunken boats and edited videos making people appear unfit while the other side does the same.

It's not happening even remotely equally. There's no equivalent to this:

 

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It's not happening even remotely equally. There's no equivalent to this:


Whatsapp messages, social media and public access radio theories ...... yeah totally not the same as a video making the president appear to be stumbling around due to mental illness. No equivalent my arsehole :rolleyes: Dirty tricks, left and right. in equal measure.
 

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Whatsapp messages, social media and public access radio theories ...... yeah totally not the same as a video making the president appear to be stumbling around due to mental illness.

I never said it's not happening at all. I said the scale of it is just absolutely dwarfed on the right. It's not equal.
 

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I never said it's not happening at all. I said the scale of it is just absolutely dwarfed on the right. It's not equal.
LOL.
The left has 99% of academia, most of the media, the public education system and most large corporates espousing a completely unprovable conspiracy theory.

Suburbs being hot?
Must be because of racism.

Remember bucko, being polite makes you an agent of white supremacy.
 

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It's not happening even remotely equally. There's no equivalent to this:


But it's true that almost all modern political campaigns have large distortions. However, unlike the left, I don't want FB or whoever to intervene - it's up to the individual to make a decision.
 

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It's not happening even remotely equally. There's no equivalent to this:

You don't think there is a slight reason why people who have fled from socialist paradises like Cuba and Venezuela might be sceptical of exactly the same promises from Democrats in the US?
 

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But it's true that almost all modern political campaigns have large distortions. However, unlike the left, I don't want FB or whoever to intervene - it's up to the individual to make a decision.

You think individuals should make a decision about floods of wild conspiracy theories and deceptive claims? You're effectively telling social media companies that they should throw open their doors to foreign election interference.
 
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You think individuals should make a decision about floods of wild conspiracy theories and deceptive claims? You're effectively telling social media companies that they should throw open their doors to foreign election interference.

Yes. When companies get involved they have this rather unedifying habit of favouring one side of the other despite claims of neutrality.
 

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You think individuals should make a decision about floods of wild conspiracy theories and deceptive claims? You're effectively telling social media companies that they should throw open their doors to foreign election interference.
There is a conspiracy theory going around that states that all white people are responsible for the ills of black people in the US.
Can we censor that theory on social media?

Tom Scott gives a really good video on this.

What would you say for example, if Google and Facebook concluded that Black Lives Matter is an organisation that floods the net with wild conspiracy theories and deceptive claims (which they do), would you want social media companies to censor an organisation that is so close to your heart?
 

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There is a conspiracy theory going around that states that all white people are responsible for the ills of black people in the US.
Can we censor that theory on social media?

Tom Scott gives a really good video on this.

Or the knee jerk reaction to HCQ, which actually cost lives.

Or, how about the constant echoing of sentiments that cops are racist and the entire justice system is systemically racist?

Man, the amount of self delusion from some people is beyond astounding.
 
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